Channel plate heat transfer system
AssigneeAlfa Laval Corporate AB
InventorKasper Höglund
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Abstract
A flow-plate is dividable in mid plane. The flow-plate includes two parts, each part includes a channel side and a utility side, and the two parts of the flow plate are counter parts and complementing each other. When the flow-plate is connected the two parts form a channel between the two counter parting channel sides. The channel includes curved obstacles, sidewalls and channel floors. The curved obstacles are lined up in parallel rows separated by sidewalls, the backside of the rows of curved obstacles have deep machined grooves making the obstacles hollow for heat transfer fluids on utility sides. A flow-plate section and a flow module are also disclosed.
Claims21
A flow-plate, said flow plate being dividable in mid plane and comprising:
- a first part and a second part, each the first and second parts comprising a channel side and a utility side,
- wherein the first and second parts are counter parts that cooperate with each other,
- wherein each channel side comprises parallel rows of curved obstacles, sidewalls and parallel rows of channel floors, said sidewalls separating said parallel rows of curved obstacles, said sidewalls separating said parallel rows of channel floors, and said rows of curved obstacles cooperating with said rows of channel floors to form a channel between the two channel sides of said flow plate, and
- wherein the utility sides of the rows of curved obstacles have deep machined grooves, said deep machined grooves being lined up in parallel rows on the utility sides of said flow-plate, the rows of deep machined grooves being perpendicular to the channel, and the rows of deep machined grooves being for the flow of heat transfer fluids on the utility sides.
An assembled flow-plate section, comprising:
- a flow-plate, said flow-plate being dividable in mid plane and being the core of the flow-plate section,
- wherein the flow-plate comprises two channel sides and two utility sides,
- wherein a channel is formed between the two channel sides by curved sides of obstacles,
- wherein the channel is sealed by a gasket between the two two channel sides, wherein the two utility sides are lined up by backsides of the curved obstacles,
- wherein the backsides of the curved obstacles have deep machined grooves for heat transfer fluids, wherein on each of the two utility side is sides are arranged a frame plate, an O-ring, a turbulator plate, and a barrier plate, and
- wherein the two barrier plates close the assembled flow-plate section.
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